Planning: Southeast Alaska Research Coordination for Community Engagement

随着高纬度地区环境的快速变化，阿拉斯加东南部农村和部落居民的传统和文化生活方式正在发生重大变化。此外，居民也敏锐地意识到北极科学研究的影响，但往往感到与在他们社区工作的研究人员脱节。该规划项目将支持锡特卡声音科学中心（SSSC）和阿拉斯加特林吉特海达印第安部落中央委员会，通过向在该地区小型、农村和部落社区工作的科学家提供沟通培训，改善参与与合作。规划拨款将用于制定一项沟通策略，该策略将加深和加强阿拉斯加东南部居民与在该地区工作的科学家之间的关系，该地区的面积与佛罗里达州一样大。科学传播培训计划将侧重于为科学家提供参与的实用技能，与阿拉斯加农村社区合作的方法，以及学习文化上适当的交流技术和与当地知识联系。该研讨会将由一个综合小组领导和发展，该小组包括土著文化传承者、一名阿拉斯加科学传播专家、一名阿拉斯加记者和在该地区有工作经验的科学家。这些规划工作将探索和评估向科学家提供沟通培训的有效方法，可能导致在阿拉斯加州开展更广泛的工作。更广泛的影响包括制定战略，以改善科学家与阿拉斯加居民之间的沟通与合作。它还将使科学家和学生了解合作生产和交流的概念，从而使更广泛的科学界受益，其目标是建立一个未来，使不同的公民能够获得和理解科学思维和科学方法来解决社区问题。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With environmental change occurring at a rapid rate in higher latitudes, Southeast Alaska rural and tribal residents are experiencing significant changes to their traditional and cultural way of life. Additionally, residents are also keenly aware of the influence of scientific research in the Arctic, yet often feel disconnected from the researchers working in their communities. This planning project will support the Sitka Sound Science Center (SSSC) and Central Council Tlingit Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska to improve engagement and collaboration by providing communication training to scientists working with small, rural, and tribal communities in the region. The planning grant will be used to develop a communication strategy that will deepen and strengthen the relationship between Southeast Alaska residents and scientists working in the region, an area as big as the State of Florida. The science communication training program will focus on providing scientists with practical skills for engagement, approaches for working with and within rural Alaska communities, and learning culturally appropriate communication techniques and connecting with local knowledge. The workshop will be led and developed by an integrated team, including Indigenous culture bearers, an Alaskan science communication expert, an Alaskan journalist, and scientists with experience working in the region. These planning efforts will explore and evaluate effective ways to provide communication training to scientists, potentially leading to broader efforts across the State of Alaska. Broader impacts include creating strategies to improve communication and collaboration between scientists and those living in Alaska. It will also benefit the broader scientific community by exposing scientist and students to the concepts of co-production and communication with the goal of building a future that allows a diverse citizenry to access and understand scientific thinking and scientific approaches to community problems.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.